_Where I went to school: University of Southern California, Universita per Stranieri di Perugia, and DePaul University.

Where I live: Portland, Oregon.

Some of the newspapers and magazines that have published my work: The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, San Jose Mercury News, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tennis, The Faster Times.

My favorite novel about 20th-century America:All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren.